Women who 'murdered 51-year-old man for his car because they were tired of being homeless' are caught with his body in trunk after high speed chase

Two young women killed a 51-year-old man for his car because they were 'tired of being homeless' and were arrested after crashing the stolen car in the middle of a high speed chase with police, authorities have said.

Jennifer McKee, 18, and Ashlee Gurule, 20, of New Mexico, have been charged with the murder of Maurice Gonzales, 51, who authorities believe may be linked to a cash-for-sex relationship with the two women.

McKee and Gurule confessed to stabbing Gonzales to death in his Albuquerque home Friday morning then stealing his car, police said.

Arrested: Jennifer McKee, 18, left, and Ashlee Gurule, 20, right, confessed to stabbing Gonzales to death in his Albuquerque home Friday morning then stealing his car, police said

The girls were ‘tired of being homeless and decided they needed a car,’ according to a criminal complaint.

The complaint said Gurule stabbed Gonzales in the neck, then stabbed him repeatedly in the chest while McKee held down his legs.

Gonzales then 'began begging for his life and asking the girls not to kill him,' the report said, adding that he even offered to give the two women anything in his apartment and his silver Dodge Avenger.

But Gurule grabbed a 'blue pillow' and placed it over Gonzales to suffocate him because ''he was not dying,' the complaint said.

McKee reportedly confessed to detectives that she and Gurule offered Gonzalez sex and pre-planned to murder him for his vehicle.

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A third suspect, Julia Martinez, 16, was also in the car during the high-speed chase and is now facing a conspiracy charge.

State Police said the trio was searching for a place to dump Gonzales’ body when an officer tried to stop them for holding up traffic on Interstate 25 in Los Lunas Friday afternoon, according to local news channel KRQE.

The attempted stop turned into high-speed chase that reached 100 mph and ended in a relatively minor crash at an intersection in downtown Belen.

‘They went ahead and initiated a felony stop; pulled out three females,’ State Police Sergeant Emmanuel Gutierrez told KRQE. ‘Upon a security sweep, they located a deceased subject.’

The news channel reported what appeared to be two bullet holes in the front window of the car on the driver's side.

High-speed chase: McKee and Gurule led police on a high-speed chase that reached 100 mph and ended in a relatively minor crash at an intersection in downtown Belen